Inserting a single document
After plenty of practice reading and filtering data, the time has come to switch roles and start adding documents to your MongoDB collection.
⚠️ Heads up! The exercises in this chapter modify the database. If you run the same code multiple times, you may see different results. Refresh the page if you want to start with a clean slate.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to MongoDB in Python
Exercise instructions
- Complete the dictionary
new_movieso it has the genres"drama"and"mystery". - Insert
new_movieinto the movies collection of the film database. - Print out the auto-generated id of the newly inserted document.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Complete the definition of new_movie
new_movie = {
"title": "the prestige",
"genre": ____,
"release_year": 2006,
"rating": 8.5,
"won_oscar": False
}
# Insert new_movie into movies collection
res = ____
# Print its auto-generated id
print(res.____)